MN Counting Underway...800 to go.

[UnrepentantUnitarian]

Franken by 100.

Here's the link, just keep refreshing it;

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=ps4WhWhMtWl0dvl90V0FUDQ&output=html&gid=0&range=grid

[IndyOp]

1. Are they hoping to finish today? Tomorrow? Monday? I'm keeping my fingers crossed. (n/t)

[MiniMe]

2. Link to watch live

http://www.theuptake.org/

[UnrepentantUnitarian]

3. 600 to go...Franken by about 150.

[eleny]

4. thanks for the link

:D

[UnrepentantUnitarian]

6. 400 more...still Franken by 170-180

[eleny]

11. wow - 234 right now

[Dennis Donovan]

5. Franken by 172!

:woohoo:

[gratuitous]

7. So when does Norm concede for the good of Minnesota?

Or doesn't his own advice apply to himself?

[Xipe Totec]

10. 2010 n/t

[UnrepentantUnitarian]

8. About 200 to go...lead is over 200.

[jimshoes]

9. It looks to be over statistically in

favor of Franken. Yeah, go Al!!!

[fla nocount]

12. It's over. Franken +223 with 18 to go. n/t

[graywarrior]

13. So what heppens next?

[SoCalDem]

14. Opti-scan seems to have been less than "correct"...

Paper ballots, hand-counted (In-place), then matched to the total ballots given out, and both matched to the number signed in..

Totals for senate/house/pres listed on paper, and the whole process videoed..

THEN run the ballots thru the opti scan for the local & state races..

If the handcount varies from the opti-scan, it's done again for the top 3 races..until 2 out of 3 counts match.

That's the ONLY way to really "know" who won.. Too many ballots to count?..more voting venues, more paid helpers..

[graywarrior]

15. When does this end?

[SoCalDem]

16. Normie has filed a challenge to allowing this count

and I guess they'll decide on Monday whether to accept it or not..

My guess is not..

I think Al just won:)

[graywarrior]

17. Woo hoo!

I hope we see the last of that little man.

[SoCalDem]

18. Did you see my tribute to Normie?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4761171&mesg_id=4761171

[graywarrior]

19. Dear lord, where did you find that?

What a dweeb.

[scarletwoman]

20. Not sure what you mean. These ballots were never scanned at all, they were rejected absentee ballots

that had never even been taken out of their mail-in envelopes until today. It was determined that election judges had discarded these ballots in error. Today was the first and only time these ballots were unsealed and subsequently hand-counted.

Actually, one thing this recount has shown is that the discrepency rate between the Opti-scan totals and hand count totals is something like 1 or 2 votes per 100 thousand. In other words, the scanners are really pretty reliable.

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[SoCalDem]

21. reliable except for when it's super close

and I know today's count was for ballots that had been excluded.. I was referencing the election night counting procedure..

we rely too much on machine counting, when we have PLENTY of people who would love to earn some money and who can count to 20..:)

[dflprincess]

22. And the scanners do provide us with a paper trail when we need one

I think we can feel pretty confident about election outcomes in Minnesota. Even more so when we have a SOS like Mark Ritchie - I'm not so sure I'd feel so good if Kiffmeyer were still in that office.